Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD)
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Artist: Led ZeppelinEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: Rhino Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Rock And Roll
- Celebration Day
- Black Dog (including Bring It On Home)*
- Over The Hills*
- Misty Mountain Hop*
- Since I've Been Loving You*
- No Quarter
- The Song Remains The Same
- Rain Song
- The Ocean*
- Dazed and Confused
- Stairway To Heaven
- Moby Dick
- Heartbreaker*
- Whole Lotta Love (*Not on original soundtrack release)
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Free Music Review: The Song Remains the Same - NOT REALLY
Hit: 3 Stars
First, I want to say that the ORIGINAL version of this album is one of my favorite albums of all time! On the original release, the live versions of Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Celebration Day and No Quarter are far superior to the studio versions in my opinion.
HOWEVER, this release is not just a remastered version with 6 new songs. Listening to this release frustrates me because I hear so many edits on what were really great versions on the original. I would just like to ask Jimmy Page WHY!!!!! Sure add new songs and improve the sound quality but why edit versions that have been part of this album for 31 years!!!
I know people who are new to this album won't care that much about the edits but for Diehards like me, it's a slap in the face! Just a few examples of horrible edits that differ from the original release:
Celebration Day - The outro solo is different and inferior.
No Quarter - The piano solo that starts at 3:27, Page cut out a minute of that very cool groove before the guitar solo starts and THEN he edited the guitar solo which on the original version was one of my favorites of all time. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then he cut John Paul Jones introduction after the song (He does like to disrespect Jonesy).
Whole Lotta Love - On the original version at 1:22 a very cool funky jam happens for about a minute and 40 seconds. On this release Page cut out a minute and half of that jam. It didn't improve anything it sounds awkward and edited.
There are other small edits not worth ranting about but I hear them everytime I listen to this release.
Now for the positive. Yes the sound and packaging are far superior to the original and yes it's great having new tracks:
The Ocean, Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You - All great performances and sound great.
Misty Mountain Hop and Over the Hills and Far Away - Good performances and sound great.
Black Dog - I would have left this one off because it becomes a trainwreck at the end. For me, they never pulled this song off live.
I was very excited when I heard that this album was going to be remastered and expanded but I have to say I am disappionted and I will probably keep listening to the original version I own.
Do yourself a favor and buy a used copy of the original release. It won't sound as full but the versions are better.
The Song Remains The Same (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD) Poster
Led Zeppelin s sold-out concert tours became rituals of high-energy rock and roll theater. The SONG REMAINS THE SAME...attests to the group s powerful and somewhat saturnalian appeal at the height of their popularity.- from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame s web page on the band s 1995 induction
The Hall of Fame s assessment of the legendary band also states, Led Zeppelin redefined rock in the Seventies and for all time. They were as influential in that decade as the Beatles were in the prior one...Then and now, Led Zeppelin looms larger than life on the rock landscape as a band for the ages with an almost mystical power to evoke primal passions. That power is communicated full-force in the updated, 2CD reissue of the soundtrack to their concert film THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME. First released in 76, the recording captures a celebrated three-night stand at NYC s Madison Square Garden in July 1973. The newly updated edition now contains six songs not featured on the original release, and the entire project was remixed and remastered with the band members direct oversight. Featuring liner notes by Oscar-winning director and former Rolling Stone editor Cameron Crowe, the set will be released simultaneously by Warner Home Video with the new, expanded DVD edition of the film.
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